Question

Which scenario has a domain with a continuous number of values?
Scenario 1: Shaun uses y buckets of water after washing x cars during a car wash fundraiser.
Scenario 2: Heather buys x apples for a total cost of y.

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Both

Neither

Answer 1

so the thing here is, can you use half of a bucket? Can you buy half an apple? Because you can use just part of a bucket, Shaun might have used any possible number of buckets, including 1 and a half or something. But Heather can only buy 1, 2, 3 apples... never 1 and a half apples. So the number of possible values in Heather's case is not continuous.

Answer 2

So it would be niether??

Answer 3

umm no. Shaun's case can contain any number of buckets ever, so his case is continuous.

Answer 4

So its both

Answer 5

no... In scenario 1, you can have every number, so it's continuous. You never have to skip a number to get to the next possible number.

in scenario 2, you can only have some numbers, so it's not continuous. You can have 1 apple, but to get to 2 apples, you have to skip over 1 and a half apples, because you can't buy that.

So scenario 1 is continuous, scenario 2 is not. Do you know why?

Answer 6

Yess I think soo you justed distribed it to me